I also don't like precious metals because they provide no income, so to invest in them you are demanding appreciation, which may or may not be there.I think anything you might do now would be tweaking rather than going a different direction due to highly uncertain times.

What makes one person good at selling hand-made jewelry on ebay is no guarantee of success in the rental biz.

I also helped my precious 6 year old niece run her lemonade stand all day which was fun(and she made $98.00!).

@Jackson BarrI assume you gave back the TV, jewelry and other toys to the business that trusted you to pay for them.Good luck with your business.  

any good dose of home town justice - they're completely disrespecting her and seem to think that they could just damage her precious home the house and force her to pay for the damages that they inflicted.

The Chinese Gov is encouraging its citizens to invest in and take physical possession of precious metals.

So incredibly sad that your daughter-in-law is in the grips of something so devastating during what should be the most precious time in a person's life.

You are throwing good money after bad by hanging onto it...and losing precious time while you "hope" you can break even.  

For me, I'll trade money for time anyday...there's plenty of money out there, but time is precious and limited...So, given these two options, I would take the 20% (plus the time savings of not having to deal with difficult tenants and neighborhoods) anyday...

To satisfy Eddies' concern on liquidity, and in agreeing with Drone, I like precious metals.